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New York, Ny, Us

Lead the team of HR Business Partners providing strategic Human Resources partnership to technology leaders at The New York Times.

Coach, Consultant, & Change Facilitator specializing in: Culture & CommunicationTalent Strategy & Human ResourcesLearning & Career DevelopmentLeadership & Organizational DevelopmentDiversity, Equity, Inclusion, & JusticeHuman Centered People ManagementDesigner and facilitator of transformational learning experiences, conferences/events, community dialogues, and meetingsClients include: ACLU of Colorado, Purdue University 4-H, University of Minnesota, Educators for Excellence (E4E) Los Angeles, Reading Partners, Great Public Schools Now, Lakeshore Learning, Citizens of the World Charter Schools, YMCA of the USA, YMCA of the Greater Bay Area, Emerson Avenue Community Garden Board of Directors, Mental Health America of Los Angeles, Lifeworks at Los Angeles LGBT Center, Camp Brave Trails, SURJ.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Global head of the Talent Enablement Center of Excellence leading the Learning & Career Development, Talent Management, and Employee Engagement & Culture functions at a rapidly growing tech company.Scope & Accomplishments:Learning & Career Development-Design and deliver company wide learning and career development programs that enable excellence across all business groups. -Build function agnostic skills development learning experiences and programs. -Design and deliver Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging education strategy. -Author and implement a company-wide competency model. -Design transparent career paths and development planning processes that drive engagement and retention. -Streamline onboarding for the future of work. -Refine evaluation practices to measure the impact of L&D work. Talent Management-Mature a scalable performance enablement strategy including goal/OKR setting, regular 1:1 meetings, and quarterly check-ins. -Lead annual Talent Review process to document performance, potential, loss impact, retention risk, and identify top talent for developing, rewarding, and retaining. -Implement succession planning, peer feedback facilitation, upward feedback for all business leaders. Employee Engagement & Culture-Drive 2x annual People Survey including leadership engagement in action planning and global communications campaign. -Regularly engage employees in focus groups and other feedback forums to identify gaps in employee experience. -Design responsive programs that maintain high levels of employee engagement and ensure alignment with a values grounded culture.

New York, Ny, Us

Led the work of Learning & Career Development and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion while advising peers and org leaders on the employee experience and cultural implications of other HR functions including talent acquisition, compensation, benefits, employee relations, etc. Provided ad hoc coaching, consultation, and other talent development supports to individuals and teams throughout the organization (including senior leaders) in service of strategic priorities.Scope & Accomplishments: -Led a Vision & Protocol Initiative to support LEE with recommitting to DEI values and implementing cultural changes to improve the health, equity, and inclusion of the organization. Includes partnership with senior leaders and a cross functional team of stakeholders. -Built and implemented a competency model to create alignment and consistency across performance management, development, and organizational culture systems and processes. -Engaged Employee Resource Groups (identity-based affinity groups) as centers of power and influence within the organization.-Designed and facilitated the Management Community of Practice (MCoP), a learning and development community for LEE’s people managers.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Led as a part-time school leader at a diverse-by-design school. Flexibly and dynamically served to meet the needs of the school community and filled gaps to enable operational excellence. Scope & Accomplishments:-Facilitated preparation for district oversight, and accountability visits (100% success rate)-Completed technical writing for accreditation applications (100% success rate)-Enhanced parent education series with marketing, parent engagement, instructional design, and facilitation-Served as on-site administrator supporting students and families with behavior, discipline, and safety. Supported teachers and staff with operational oversight, parent/family relations, and community partner relations-Managed the business operations of on site after school care and enrichment program, including supervision of staff, parent relations, and fiscal management

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Led the work of Learning & Career Development and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at a 2500+ employee, multi-site organization. Supported operations of YMCAs with project and change management, staff development and engagement, culture and leadership, systems efficacy, communications, events, and programming. Scope & Accomplishments:-Was sought out to provide leadership, inclusion, and organizational development coaching, partnership, and consultation to diverse, and often disparate, groups including: Sr. Leadership, Executive leadership, volunteer boards, and staff-Facilitated co-ownership of culture and learning initiatives with both the Human Resources department and customer facing teams-Acted as advisor to senior and executive leadership regarding diversity equity, and inclusion and organizational culture-Led the team that developed, tested, delivered, facilitated, and supported training and leadership development workshops and collateral including new hire orientation, onboarding, & cohort style learning and mentoring programs with exceptional outcomes -Developed, produced, supported, and evaluated distance learning including live instructor-led online learning, comprehensive eLearning courses, recorded/video instruction -Represented the organization and the National YMCA Movement in local, national, and global forums-Developed, collected, and evaluated metrics for assessing department initiative effectiveness -Ensured all efforts are aligned with organizational mission, cause, strategic plan, and quality performance outcomes

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Led the Project Management and Business Development of a Workforce Development team engaged in organization based, contract, local government, national government, and international scopes of work. Responsible for team leadership, staff onboarding and ongoing career development, diversity and inclusion training, and employee experience/culture. Scope & Accomplishments:-Designed and facilitated curriculum to new and existing staff; mental health professionals, employees of other human service agencies; professional teachers/trainers; high school, community college, university, and graduate students.-Coordinated organization events including: celebratory events, trainings, workshops, seminars and conferences; promoted and executed staff appreciation events and traditions.-Advised organization leadership on projects related to the agency culture and staff engagement. -Supervised coordination of new employee orientation process focused on maintaining a positive, evolving culture.-Served as primary contact for new training and consultation clients and partners; assessed needs/wants; developed relationship to initiate culture of mutual learning; recommended and proposed products/services.-Collected and reported on all training data.-Developed and delivered training curriculum for a service impact measure and tracking tool, engaged State of Massachusetts as a user of the tool and supported the implementation process from inception to completion.-Managed the administrative operations team of a mental health education, advocacy, and service agency improving the efficiency of business operations by more than 50%.-Influenced agency culture through a data driven lens that emphasized measuring excellence.-Developed and maintained an impact measure that captured each employee’s progress and increased self-responsibility.

Bachelor Of Arts, Studio Art, Human Services

Fellowship, Public Leadership

Certified Trainer, Intercultural/Multicultural And Diversity Studies